A pioneering exploration of how differences in production and circulation of texts conveyed ideas around the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.
A pioneering exploration of how differences in production and circulation of texts conveyed ideas around the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.
1. Introduction - James Raven Part One: Knowledge and Reception 2. Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver's Museum - Richard Coulton 3. 'Useful' Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment - Alexandra Ortolja-Baird 4. Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global Reception of a Norwegian History - James Raven 5. The Lettres chinoises and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China - Trude Dijkstra 6. An American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem Social Library - Sean Moore Part Two: Images and News 7. Travelling Images: Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of England - Isabelle Baudino 8. From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs across the Channel in the Late Eighteenth Century - Jean-François Dunyach 9. The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles - Francesco A. Morriello 10. Newspapers and Atlantic Revolutions: The Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean - Cristina Soriano Part Three: Multiple Diffusions 11. Cross-Cultural Circulations and Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale and its Editions - Despina Magkanari 12. The Diffusion of the Qur'an in Private Enlightenment Libraries - Alicia C. Montoya 13. The Unexpected Dynamics of Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar- Graham Shaw 14. Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in Early Nineteenth-Century China - Cynthia Brokaw Conclusion - James Raven Select Bibliography Index
1. Introduction - James Raven Part One: Knowledge and Reception 2. Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver's Museum - Richard Coulton 3. 'Useful' Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment - Alexandra Ortolja-Baird 4. Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global Reception of a Norwegian History - James Raven 5. The Lettres chinoises and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China - Trude Dijkstra 6. An American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem Social Library - Sean Moore Part Two: Images and News 7. Travelling Images: Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of England - Isabelle Baudino 8. From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs across the Channel in the Late Eighteenth Century - Jean-François Dunyach 9. The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles - Francesco A. Morriello 10. Newspapers and Atlantic Revolutions: The Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean - Cristina Soriano Part Three: Multiple Diffusions 11. Cross-Cultural Circulations and Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale and its Editions - Despina Magkanari 12. The Diffusion of the Qur'an in Private Enlightenment Libraries - Alicia C. Montoya 13. The Unexpected Dynamics of Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar- Graham Shaw 14. Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in Early Nineteenth-Century China - Cynthia Brokaw Conclusion - James Raven Select Bibliography Index
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